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FTP 7.5, Cannot access file while in use

Hi!
We're using FTP 7.5 (with IIS 7.0 on Windows 2008 Web edition, 64-bit) and we have problems downloading files that is currently in use. This problem occurs both on files that is still uploading and files that are being used by other processes. In particular
we have problems to download IIS log files since these are locked by Worker Processes serving a web site.

The error message returned to the FTP client is 550 The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

This is exactly the same error that is described in the FAQ (http://forums.iis.net/t/1158270.aspx#B43) but even though we've changed this setting, the problem persists.
I've verified that the File Handling / Allow Reading Files While Uploading is set to
True. The applicationHost.config for the FTP site looks like this:

Re: FTP 7.5, Cannot access file while in use

95% of the time I have this issue. About 5% of the time it works flawlessly.

I also have a smilar issue trying to upload files using webdav, they just time out (95% of the time). (and im not sure what the error message is because the terrible webdav client built into windows 7 just freezes with no error message).

I don't have this problem on any of my servers using iis 7.0 or iis 6.0. this is only an issue on iis 7.5

Re: FTP 7.5, Cannot access file while in use

Anybody found solution? Reproducing issue is easy: 1. Create web site 2. Create FTP site that reading logs of web site 3. Load any page on web site and than try to download latest log file from FTP. 4. See 550 error of FTP server 5. Try to change allowReadUploadsInProgress
setting and see that it has no effect at all

Re: FTP 7.5, Cannot access file while in use

Nope... We still got the same problem. Not only is the problem easy to reproduce, I haven't been able to get the desired function of allowReadUploadsInProgress in any of our tests. Have we all misunderstood the use of allowReadUploadsInProgress or is it simply
not working? Regards, Jonas

Re: FTP 7.5, Cannot access file while in use

I have the same issue. The issue occured mildly when the websites were on the test URL. Once the sites were live (i.e. DNS changed to new server) the problem is constant. This is a serious issue as we let customers download their log files. The odd bit
is that I'm abelto open the log files with notepad through Windows Explorer. Its just the IIS FTP that's unable to open the log files. Is Microsoft going to address this issue??